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The Professionals (Ali Guli Mane)by  Rochelle Potkar
A man who works professionally as a false witness in court cases hired by police, goons, or lawyers, agrees to help a grieving mother, who has just lost her son in a train accident, by being a false witness for a percentage of her compensation. But she too is no straight line.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pet Rockby  Mike Doyle
Katie wanted a pet that would never die. Unfortunately, that's exactly what she got.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Generation Killerby  John Edward Bias
Time is of the essence as an assassin goes on a chronological murder spree searching for a time travel equation.

Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby  Deogratias Nyakiki
Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby  Nik Forster
A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
An image-obsessed actor is bitten by a snake while staging a publicity-friendly hiking trip, then spends what may be his final minutes rehearsing the perfect deathbed message instead of confronting the life he actually lived.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes "one crease at a time." Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A married man bored with monogamy talks his wife into having a tryst with two swingers that ends in disaster.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A wife intends to surprise her husband, orphaned as a child, with a DNA test for his 50th birthday, only to discover that he is her half brother.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A man pursues a little girl through the woods with a hatchet - but before you judge him, you don't know what's wearing her face.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Incarnationsby  Bob Messinger
A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Horse in a Saloonby  Nickolas Snider
It's about a horse named Buck. He was human before being turned by an evil warlock. He wants to prove himself by ordering a drink in a saloon to prove he is more than just a horse.

Genre: Western
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shiftby  Gladman
A manipulative therapist accused of murdering his patient uses his final interrogation to expose evidence of a deeper conspiracyforcing his unseen interrogators to confront the possibility that he may be the key witness, not the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Standoffby  Linda Gould
A filmmaker, hauled before a government tribunal and accused of making a subversive film, defends herself with the help of a loyal publicist who protects her boss by rewriting the screenplay's ending on the spot.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A volatile alcoholic father gets his just desserts after abusing his teenage son for the last time.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby  Bill Cornelius
After surviving a near fatal car crash, two friends find that neither is what they appear to be and a mysterious corporation hopes to keep it a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rescue In Earth's Orbitby  Michael J Volpe
A lone astronaut survives an overdue rescue mission and an impossible spacewalkthen returns to Earth with a truth that cannot be spoken.

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Treeby  Paolo Galli
On a scorching summer afternoon, a homeless man finds shelter beneath a great tree and comfort in an old photograph. With a simple yet profound gesture writing poems in exchange for coins he sows beauty in the silence of the city. Years later, on his wedding day, a man discovers that a small note he received as a child shaped his destiny. A tale about the power of quiet gestures and invisible legacies.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunter Withinby  Lamar D. Vine
When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Human Experienceby  Judah Ray
A grieving father struggles to guide his reluctant son through a funeral as they confront their fears, grapple with their complicated family dynamics, and discover the power of love and imagination in the face of loss.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby  Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.

Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby  Brandi Self
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fez Rescueby  Ed Tasca
A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stage Fright Rebootby  Afraz Hameed
In a decaying vaudeville theatre, a fragile dog trainer must fight to save his beloved animals after a cold-blooded silent-film star forcibly merges their world into a mechanical, soul-crushing film studio.

Genre: Animation
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beatles '74by  Elliot Stanton
In a parallel 1974 where The Beatles have reunited, two sisters clash over music, memory, and marriage in a single afternoon that may reshape their futures, just as the Fab Four call it quits for good.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Amid the fading light of a Bournemouth afternoon, a weary man and a guarded woman share one conversation that unravels decades of regret, revealing that even in the twilight of life, the heart still waits for its tide to turn.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby  Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clown 2by  DJ Robbins
The clown is back, and he is after Steve.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Villageby  Adolpho Phillips
Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Weird Realtyby  Elise Marenson
When a female realtor calls on a guy to sell his house, he doesn't recognize her and has no clue that her biting remarks come from him standing her up in high school.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby  John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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